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Gary Paul Nabhan

Where Our Food Comes from: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

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The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist--and vivid storyteller--has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov's e… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61091-003-3
  • EAN: 9781610910033
  • Produktnummer: 11038426
  • Verlag: Island Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 223 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.8 cm 345 g
  • Auflage: 2. A.
  • Gewicht: 345

Über den Autor


Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist. The author of Why Some Like It Hot, Coming Home to Eat, and many other books and articles, he has been honored with a M MacArthur Genius Fellowship and The John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Founder and facilitator of the Renewing America's Food Traditions collaborative, he is currently a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona.

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